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Description: | A lead alloy musket ball of Post-Medieval date, AD 1600 - 1800. The casting seam is not visible. There is a faint band of set-up caused by the ball being squeezed aginst the inside of the muzzle by the gasses during firing. A long concave dent may be impact damage. Other small dimples and dents are probably post-depositional. The ball has a light, yellowish-grey patina. It is 14.9mm in diameter and weighs 17.73g. The weight suggests that this ball was fired from a Carbine, a short firearm used mainly by cavalry (Harding (2012) Lead Shot of the English Civil War: a Radical Study).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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